"Georgian Dream" spends 5 million GEL annually on its own PR

"European Georgia" exposes the lie of the mayor of Tbilisi. Giorgi Noniashvili, who was nominated by the opposition party as the head of the new anti-corruption network today, said that the Georgian Dream spends 5 million GEL annually on its own PR and 600,000 GEL on the advertisement for the official Facebook page of the City Hall.

The City Hall claims that the posts on Kakha Kaladze's official website are advertised with his personal funds and no budget funds are spent for it.

"In one of the examples we mentioned the expenses of Tbilisi City Hall in its own PR, 5 million GEL is spent on self advertising and 600 000 GEL is spent on Facebook advertising alone. In this regard, the City Hall wrote shortly back that Kakhi Kaladze does not attract funds for his personal page from the expenses of the City Hall in advertising, ie the state budget funds are not spent on sponsoring and advertising anything on Kakhi Kaladze's personal page.

I would like to tell the Tbilisi City Hall that there was no talk at all on Kakhi Kaladze's personal page, there was talk on the Facebook page of the Tbilisi City Hall, including this huge amount of money spent on advertising the City Hall could be used for much better things, This 5 million and 600 000 GEL could have been spent on better things and not on Kakha Kaladze's political campaign, because what the City Hall is advertising is in fact part of Kaladze's political interests and taxpayers are paying money for it, unfortunately," Noniashvili said.